[PD] Re: Gaining access to /usr/local/lib/pd/extra in the Finder?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Thursday, Apr 8, 2004, at 10:11 America/New_York, Hans-Christoph  
Steiner wrote:

>
> On Thursday, Apr 8, 2004, at 05:26 America/New_York, Thomas Grill  
> wrote:
>
>>
>>> A Mac user suggested that it would be more "mac like" to put the  
>>> whole
>>> Pd distribution into one single Application directory instead of
>>> using the unix file system standard.
>>
>> Hi Guenter,
>> there's already the uPDated package which conforms to the OSX way of  
>> things.
>
> The uPDated package does have a double-clickable .app package, but I  
> would not say that it conforms to the MacOS X way.  First off, when it  
> launches, there are two icons, one for the Platypus system that it  
> uses with a Pd icon, and one for the Wish Shell with the standard Wish  
> Shell icon.  This is actually more confusing than just having the Wish  
> Shell icon running because clicking on the Pd icon doesn't take you to  
> Pd, but just the launcher, which seems to do nothing once Wish Shell  
> is running.  Plus, Pd is still labeled "Wish" once its running.    It  
> also suffers from MacOS X not wanting to show the /doc/ directory.
>
> The AppMain.tcl script is the way things need to be done in order to  
> have Pd behave like a MacOS X application.  Check out this nice, free  
> sound editor to see an good example of AppMain.tcl in action:   
> http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/    Actually, it is probably a  
> good place to look to see how a number of GUI things should be done  
> with Tcl, things like key bindings, etc.

I just downloaded the new version of Wavesurfer, and it now displays  
"Wishkit" as the name of the app under MacOS X, which is unfortunate.   
I am pretty sure it used to say "Wavesurfer".

The way they have done the console, using tkcon, is quite nice and I  
think should be replicated in Pd.  Its a fully featured console that  
also will show all the messages.

.hc

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